Entry requirements
Who can enter Sri Lanka
Only 4 passports need a visa arranged before flying to Sri Lanka — the other 193 are cleared at the border or with a travel authorisation. 1 passport is not admitted at all. It ranks #37 for openness, tier A.
By nationality
Sri Lanka entry rules, nationality by nationality
193 passports enter Sri Lanka without an advance visa
Sri Lanka ranks #37 for openness
Visa-free, visa on arrival and eTA combined, out of 198 passports in our dataset. How we count
Openness reflects visa policy only — not safety, government travel advisories, or how easy the country is to travel in.
- Visa-free
- 1
- Visa on arrival
- 190
- eTA
- 2
- eVisa
- 1
- Visa required
- 3
- Afghanistan30 days
- Albania30 days
- Algeria30 days
- Andorra30 days
- Angola30 days
- Antigua and Barbuda30 days
- Argentina30 days
- Armenia30 days
- Australia30 days
- Austria30 days
- Azerbaijan30 days
- Bahamas30 days
- Bahrain30 days
- Bangladesh30 days
- Barbados30 days
- Belarus30 days
- Belgium30 days
- Belize30 days
- Benin30 days
- Bhutan30 days
- Bolivia30 days
- Bosnia and Herzegovina30 days
- Botswana30 days
- Brazil30 days
- Brunei30 days
- Bulgaria30 days
- Burkina Faso30 days
- Burundi30 days
- Cabo Verde30 days
- Cambodia30 days
- Canada30 days
- Central African Republic30 days
- Chad30 days
- Chile30 days
- China30 days
- Colombia30 days
- Comoros30 days
- Congo30 days
- Costa Rica30 days
- Croatia30 days
- Cuba30 days
- Cyprus30 days
- Czechia30 days
- Denmark30 days
- Djibouti30 days
- Dominica30 days
- Dominican Republic30 days
- DR Congo30 days
- Ecuador30 days
- Egypt30 days
- El Salvador30 days
- Equatorial Guinea30 days
- Eritrea30 days
- Estonia30 days
- Eswatini30 days
- Ethiopia30 days
- Fiji30 days
- Finland30 days
- France30 days
- Gabon30 days
- Gambia30 days
- Georgia30 days
- Germany30 days
- Ghana30 days
- Greece30 days
- Grenada30 days
- Guatemala30 days
- Guinea30 days
- Guinea-Bissau30 days
- Guyana30 days
- Haiti30 days
- Honduras30 days
- Hong Kong30 days
- Hungary30 days
- Iceland30 days
- India30 days
- Indonesia30 days
- Iran30 days
- Iraq30 days
- Ireland30 days
- Israel30 days
- Italy30 days
- Jamaica30 days
- Japan30 days
- Jordan30 days
- Kazakhstan30 days
- Kenya30 days
- Kiribati30 days
- Kosovo30 days
- Kuwait30 days
- Kyrgyzstan30 days
- Laos30 days
- Latvia30 days
- Lebanon30 days
- Lesotho30 days
- Liberia30 days
- Libya30 days
- Liechtenstein30 days
- Lithuania30 days
- Luxembourg30 days
- Macao30 days
- Madagascar30 days
- Malawi30 days
- Malaysia30 days
- Maldives
- Mali30 days
- Malta30 days
- Marshall Islands30 days
- Mauritania30 days
- Mauritius30 days
- Mexico30 days
- Micronesia30 days
- Moldova30 days
- Monaco30 days
- Mongolia30 days
- Montenegro30 days
- Morocco30 days
- Mozambique30 days
- Myanmar30 days
- Namibia30 days
- Nauru30 days
- Nepal30 days
- Netherlands30 days
- New Zealand30 days
- Nicaragua30 days
- Niger30 days
- North Macedonia30 days
- Norway30 days
- Oman30 days
- Palau30 days
- Palestine30 days
- Panama30 days
- Papua New Guinea30 days
- Paraguay30 days
- Peru30 days
- Poland30 days
- Portugal30 days
- Qatar30 days
- Romania30 days
- Russia30 days
- Rwanda30 days
- Saint Kitts and Nevis30 days
- Saint Lucia30 days
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines30 days
- Samoa30 days
- San Marino30 days
- Sao Tome and Principe30 days
- Saudi Arabia30 days
- Senegal30 days
- Serbia30 days
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone30 days
- Slovakia30 days
- Slovenia30 days
- Solomon Islands30 days
- Somalia30 days
- South Africa30 days
- South Korea30 days
- South Sudan30 days
- Spain30 days
- Sudan30 days
- Suriname30 days
- Sweden30 days
- Switzerland30 days
- Taiwan30 days
- Tajikistan30 days
- Tanzania30 days
- Thailand30 days
- Timor-Leste30 days
- Togo30 days
- Tonga30 days
- Trinidad and Tobago30 days
- Tunisia30 days
- Turkey30 days
- Turkmenistan30 days
- Tuvalu30 days
- Uganda30 days
- Ukraine30 days
- United Arab Emirates30 days
- United Kingdom30 days
- United States30 days
- Uruguay30 days
- Uzbekistan30 days
- Vanuatu30 days
- Vatican City30 days
- Venezuela30 days
- Vietnam30 days
- Yemen30 days
- Zambia30 days
- Zimbabwe30 days
About this data
How to read these categories
Visa-free means no permission is needed before or on arrival; visa on arrival and eTA are granted at the border or online in minutes; eVisa and consular visa must be approved before you travel.
Data last verified: August 20, 2026. How we count
Openness reflects visa policy only. It says nothing about safety, government travel advisories, flight connectivity or how easy the trip actually is.
No destination-specific primary source has been recorded for Sri Lanka yet — this column comes from the general dataset sweep rather than an individual re-verification.
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